He wasn’t sure how the memorial would be received in Alcolu. Indeed, as the group stood on the front edge of his property to install it, three white men drove by. They slowed to look at the smooth granite tombstone. Then they made a U-turn and parked nearby. Then, one by one, several elderly white attendees recounted their idyllic lives in the area, making a point to note the generosity of the town’s founding family, the Aldermans. They spoke of Vacation Bible School with Jennie Alderman and Boy Scout camping trips led by Ben Alderman. Every Christmas, the Aldermans gave every family a bag of fruit, the children small toys, and trees to those who couldn’t afford them. Elaine Aradillas, Jill Smolowe, Howard Breuer, Michelle Boudin, “ A Family’s Quest for Justice Wrongfully Executed,”(People, March, 2014), 73. ↵

Jesse Wegman, “ George Stinney was Executed at 14,”(New York: New York Times, January 12, 2015), 9. ↵ In July 1982, the city of Waco, Texas was horrified by the brutal murders of three teenagers, two girls and a boy. Deputy Truman Simmons got the idea that local store owner Muneer Mohammad Deeb hired three men (including David Wayne Spence) to kill a woman named Gayle Kelly. But Gayle Kelly was not even one of the victims. Deputy Simmons claimed that the killers had mistaken one of the girls as Kelly, and then killed the others because they were witnesses. Elaine Dupree mows the grass around a memorial to George Stinney Jr. that sits in her front yard alongside Sumter Highway in Alcolu. Her husband, Jerome, said he wanted to place the marker where everyone can see it. Andrew J. Whitaker/ Staff By Andrew Whitaker [email protected] In 2014 his conviction was posthumously vacated based on the fact there was little evidence he committed these crimes and supposedly there had been a deathbed confession by a prominent white member of the community about the murders.Following a deliberation that took less than 10 minutes, the all-white jury found Stinney guilty of murder, with no recommendation for mercy. George Junius Stinney Jr. (21 de octubre de 1929 - 16 de junio de 1944) fue, a la edad de 14 años, la persona más joven en ser ejecutada en los Estados Unidos del siglo XX y el último menor de dieciséis años en morir por la misma forma. Bajo las leyes de Carolina del Sur en ese momento, toda persona sobre la edad de catorce años era tratado como a un adulto. Stinney fue sentenciado a muerte en la silla eléctrica. La ejecución fue llevada a cabo en la Penitenciaría Estatal de Carolina del Sur en Columbia la mañana del 16 de junio de 1944, menos de tres meses después del crimen.​ (es) The Evans’ lived on the top floor of 10 Rillington Place and John Christie and his wife lived on the bottom floor. When police searched the home, they found the bodies of both Beryl and Geraldine. They had been strangled. The trial against Evans took 3 days, and a jury found him guilty in 40 minutes. He was executed on March 9, 1950. Three years later, police found numerous bodies at 10 Rillington Place. All of the women that had been killed and abused by John Christie. George Junius Stinney Jr.)‏ هو طفل أمريكي أسود، وهو أصغر شخص حكم عليه بالإعدام في تاريخ الولايات المتحدة بولاية كارولاينا الجنوبية، وكان الكرسي الكهربائي كبيرا جدا بالنسبة له، أدين في بضعة دقائق وكان ذلك في 14 يونيو من عام 1944. في ذلك اليوم كان عمر جورج ستني بالتحديد 14 عاما و6 شهور و5 أيام. وجرى إعدامه عن طريق الكرسي الكهربائي لإدانته بقتل كل من بيتي جون بينيكر (11 عاما) وماري إيما تايمس (8 أعوام). بعد مرور 70 عامًا على إعدامه، ونظرًا لأبحاث أجراها مؤرخ محلي، تمت إعادة النظر في القضية بعد طلب من شقيقته كاترين ستيني التي لم يتم سماع شهادتها وبعد موافقة القاضية كارمن مولن تم الحكم ببراءته في عام 2014 لعدم كفاية الأدلة وتمتع المتهم بمحاكمة عادلة. (ar) She vividly remembered seeing her brother's burned body in a casket after his electrocution and the unmarked grave he was buried in.

After Feltwell’s arrest in February 1944, no expense was spared in his defense, including the appointment of three attorneys. They consulted a nationally known criminologist, employed a lie detector test and committed Feltwell to a state hospital in Columbia to determine his sanity. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Thomas Granger, sixteen-year-old boy who was the first documented juvenile to be executed on United States territory No one was willing to host the memorial, however, not even the rural Pinewood church where George is buried. His family wanted to keep the location of his grave secret. Timothy Evans stands as a testament to the unfortunate situation of people with mental illness in the legal system. Evans was always slow to meet his developmental milestones growing up and he suffered from tubercular sore on his right foot. The sore never healed and would often keep him out of school. By the time he left school, he was still completely illiterate. As an adult, he struggled to find work, finding that his foot prevented him from working in the coal mines. In 1947 he was living in London when he and his wife Beryl had a daughter, Geraldine Evans.The following description of the basic facts of the case is taken from the ruling of Carmen Tevis Mullen, the 14th Judicial District judge in South Carolina who vacated Stinney's conviction in 2014. It contains descriptions of violence against children that some readers might find upsetting:

Strictly speaking, Judge Mullen did not exonerate Stinney when she vacated his conviction, despite the 2018 social media claims that "his innocence has just been officially recognized by a judge in South Carolina."Even though there were rumours that the girls had a stopover at a prominent white family’s house, the police never investigated them nor did they search for a white killer. After receiving reports that the girls had stopped at Stinney’s house, the law enforcement officers arrested George Stinney Jr. and his older brother Johnny. Although they released Johnny, they kept 14-year-old George in custody.

a b "He was 14 when he was executed. 70 years later, this boy has been exonerated". The Independent. December 18, 2014 . Retrieved September 24, 2019. a b Edwards, David (October 3, 2011). "New evidence could clear 14-year-old executed by South Carolina". The Raw Story. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016. The stories we hear are that he was a shy bashful boy, but he was a bully and he was mean," she said, citing allegations by Duke and others. She questions the memories of the Stinney family, the motivation of the attorneys and the timing of the appeal. "Why now? What about in the 1960s, when the civil rights movement was starting? What about in the 1970s or 80s? One was a school teacher. It's not as though they weren't educated."

He said, ‘Johnny, I didn’t, didn’t do it,'” Hunter said. “He said, ‘Why would they kill me for something I didn’t do?'” We always knew that our aunt was murdered and we always knew that it was George Stinney Jr.," Dyches said of the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century. "My grandparents to begin with never recovered. That was their baby daughter." As sunlight swelled above the treeline the next morning, George Burke Sr., one of the big bosses at the lumber mill, led a search party as they continued their work. David Stout based his first novel Carolina Skeletons (1988) on this case. [41] He was awarded the 1989 Edgar Award for Best First Novel ( Edgar Allan Poe Award). [42] Stout suggests in the novel that Stinney, whom he renames Linus Bragg, was innocent. The plot revolves around a fictitious brother of Stinney/Bragg, who unravels the truth about the case decades later. The novel was adapted as a 1991 television movie of the same name directed by John Erman, featuring Kenny Blank as Stinney/Bragg. [43] Lou Gossett Jr. played Stinney's/Bragg's younger brother James. [44] About a month after the girls’ deaths, George Stinney Jr.’s trial began at a Clarendon County Courthouse. Court-appointed attorney Charles Plowden did “little to nothing” to defend his client.